Twenty Three to Twenty One #2 by Michael Ceraolo
Twenty-Three to Twenty-One , titled such for the 23 letters (totaling 155 pages!) that a woman named Julia Sand wrote to Chester Arthur, the 21st President. I have excerpted her letters and imagined how Arthur might have responded; as far as is known he never wrote back to her (quotations in the Arthur part of the poems come from his writings). from Twenty-Three to Twenty-One #2 "Englewood N.J. Sept 25, 1881 Hon. Chester A. Arthur And so Garfield is really dead & you are President For a time it seemed as if we all were mistaken--- as if he meant to 'disappoint our fears' Then I felt I owed you an apology for what I had written Perhaps I...
